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Talentor UK - England & Wales - Collingwood Executive Search

Since being established in 2005, Collingwood has been focused on building long term partnerships with aspirational clients. These clients range from SMEs to large international corporate businesses and all want to invest in Collingwood as their Trusted Partners for Executive Search and Leadership Development. Our clients love our resilience, relentless and innovative approach to delivering success for them whether that be to recruit an outstanding Leader, Senior Manager or Specialist role or, indeed, help them become more effective through Leadership Development & Coaching.

About us

Collingwood is a friendly and down to earth team who enjoy constantly pushing each other to improve, develop, and delight their clients. Repeat business is one of their key objectives and around 75% of the company revenue every year comes from repeat clients with 99% of all their clients returning at some point. Around a further 20% comes from current clients referring them to help their network recruit senior roles.

Working with the right clients is critical to Collingwood success, as they work hard to ensure that they work with like-minded clients who want to collaborate with their team to solve their recruitment problems.

The values that are practiced by all members of the Collingwood team and that we believe are important to highlight are accountability, integrity, innovation, and listening, always working towards the company vision and purpose.

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Our partners and team

Talentor UK Collingwood Team Doug Mackay
Managing Director

Having started his career in Executive Search in 1998, Doug set up Collingwood in 2005 alongside his wife, Claire Mackay.

Doug has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies but specialised in marketing and French. His degree involved spending a year in France with Xerox which is where Claire worked and where he says love started.

At the beginning Doug didn’t actually choose a career in Executive Search, he applied for a sales role back in 1998 via an Executive Search firm in Warrington. They then called to discuss him joining their graduate scheme instead and that’s where it all began!

Collingwood was set up in 2005 and has gone through several transformations to create and shape the strong team they have now. Doug led their sales and marketing strategy and has worked hard to develop a portfolio of aspirational clients who align with Collingwood values and with whom they love partnering.

Talentor UK Collingwood Team Doug Mackay
Managing Director
Having started his career in Executive Search in 1998, Doug set up Collingwood in 2005 alongside his wife, Claire Mackay. Doug has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies but specialised i... More

Having started his career in Executive Search in 1998, Doug set up Collingwood in 2005 alongside his wife, Claire Mackay.

Doug has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies but specialised in marketing and French. His degree involved spending a year in France with Xerox which is where Claire worked and where he says love started.

At the beginning Doug didn’t actually choose a career in Executive Search, he applied for a sales role back in 1998 via an Executive Search firm in Warrington. They then called to discuss him joining their graduate scheme instead and that’s where it all began!

Collingwood was set up in 2005 and has gone through several transformations to create and shape the strong team they have now. Doug led their sales and marketing strategy and has worked hard to develop a portfolio of aspirational clients who align with Collingwood values and with whom they love partnering.

Talentor UK Collingwood Team Doug Mackay
Managing Director

Our Services

  • Talentor Services 1 Executive Search

    An exceptional solution for securing top talent for leadership positions.

  • Talentor Services 2 Professional Search

    Talentor’s recruitment service has placed many of the world’s leading professionals.

Insights from a global network

Doug Mackay —
March 2024

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